Re: slackware 8.0

["L. C. Robinson" <lcr onewest net>]

> On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 07:49:56AM +1000, Adrian Beech wrote:
> > Just as an aside... It would be nice if the ISO images could
> > be zipped so it would reduce the size of the downloads.  

All distributions already archive the individual packages in
superior archive formats (zip is pretty dated, and M$ specific),
usually *.tgz, *.tar.gz, *.deb, or *.rpm.  If the zip archiver
(which is available for linux) is configured properly, it will
not try to compress these archives again, thereby actually
increasing their size a bit.  So you would gain little or nothing
by zipping the ISO image, or rest assured, they would already be
shipped (or posted) in this way.

LCR

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